I stopped trying to keep up with every new smart bulb announcement a while back — it felt like noise. But scrolling through what’s actually shipped this year, I had to walk that back. This isn&#...
I’ll admit I put off buying a dedicated hub for way too long, mostly because I assumed my collection of Alexa devices and a couple of Matter gadgets were “hub enough.” They werenR...
I’ve bought and returned more smart home gadgets than I’d like to admit, mostly because half of them refused to talk to each other. A lightbulb that only worked with its own app, a plug th...
I used to think of my outdoor lights as exactly that — lights. Something that came on at dusk and off at dawn, nothing more sophisticated than a photocell from 1985. Then a neighbor’s Ring camer...
I’ll admit it — for years I treated my voice assistant like a glorified kitchen timer. “Set 10 minutes.” “What’s the weather.” That’s about as deep as my voic...
I’ll be honest — I didn’t expect smart lighting to become the thing I check obsessively every morning before coffee, but here we are. A few months ago, my “smart” setup was bas...